Inventing pollution : coal, smoke, and culture in Britain since 1800 / Peter Thorsheim.

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2006], ©2006.

xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-291) and index.

Coal, smoke, and history -- The miasma era -- Pollution redefined -- The balance of nature -- Pollution and civilization -- Degeneration and eugenics -- Environmental activism -- Regulating pollution -- Pollution displacement -- Death comes from the air -- Smokeless zones -- Reinventing pollution.